The workless

This book contests the hegemonic discourse around 'worklessness' - and dominant definitions of what we recognize as 'work'. It argues the current 'crisis' in economic inactivity is merely the latest in a long line of moral panics that have exaggerated the scale of 'worklessness' while denying the...

Media imaginaries

This collection of new work by international scholars on media imaginaries explores the concept as a tool for reflection. Authors empirically and conceptually examine media imaginaries as multiform, providing space for dialogue on themes of political-social imaginaries, cultural-technological ima...

The future of humanity (third edition)

Humanity now stands at a crossroads in the history of human civilization, the author, from the perspective of sublating Eastern and Western cultures and civilizations, proposes the concepts of “Global Civilization”and “Great Civilization,” explains their significance and discusses practical appro...

Cutting up books

Explores writing as experiment and destruction as discovery. Blending theory, art, and practice, it introduces textrapolation: a cut-up method that reimagines creativity, authorship, and knowledge-making in the age of artificial unintelligence. Encourages intellectual play, intuition, and embodie...

Decolonial media imaginaries

A bold inquiry into media imaginaries and imaginaries-work as tools of decolonial resistance, worldmaking, and collective futurity. DMI pivots away from the digital, technological, and sublime imaginaries created in the service of global capitalism to foreground the potential viability and genera...

Art is the evidence

The practical research guide explores art as both the process of inquiry and the evidence it generates. Universal access across disciplines is encouraged. Artistic intelligence and its sustained personal contributions to human understanding offers a timely complement to science and the exponentia...

The origins of prejudice

The Origins of Prejudice is a short and unconventional book that shows you step-by-step both how and why all of us who are human often rely uncritically on what we believe to be true about the people, things, and events shaping our lives outside the hidden world of our bony skull. This book aims ...

The cultural dimensions of peacebuilding

The Cultural Dimensions of Peacebuilding details aspects of cultures, including language, films, journalism, political economics, museums, education, parenting, gender, artistic activism, and spirituality, which can contribute to either more violent societies or more peaceful ones. Solutions-orie...

Maritime archaeology with compassionate community connection

Contemporary public discourses about archaeology are routinely characterized by scientific and historical narratives that leave the water blank. This book weaves together voices from across the Asia Pacific region, revealing maritime archaeology as a labour of love rooted in connection, compassio...

Arts initiatives by refugees for refugees

Addressing forced migration as a global challenge, this book draws on multi-sited research to examine the arts and cultural dimensions of refugee contexts. Through narrative-driven accounts, it highlights refugee agency, creativity, and community-building, challenging reductive stereotypes and fo...

The spirit of affect

In rural Punu communities, song and dance are shaped through ritual encounters between humans and spirit beings. This ethnography explores how performance creates connection and participation in the water spirit world, offering a matrifocal perspective that rethinks affect and embodied life.

Urban biopolitics

Comparing Estonia and Ukraine, this book explores urban governance through the lens of biopolitics. It examines how geopolitical pressures shape the management of urban populations, revealing how cities become key sites where lifestyle, security, and political calculation intersect.

Theorising media and time

Digital media perpetuates every aspect of our lives, including our temporal perceptions. This book brings advances in the anthropological thinking about time into conversation with theorizations of media to develop an understanding of how media and time affect each other while keeping human exper...

Searching for the dao of medicine

Exploring late imperial China, this book examines how medical virtuosity was cultivated within vibrant intellectual networks linking physicians and scholars. It shows how medicine intersected with poetry, meditation and empirical inquiry, reshaping both clinical practice and broader social and ph...

Decolonizing african art history and heritage

In Mubende Hill, Uganda, African art history lives through its spiritual traditions. Centering the agency of ritual objects and the ancestral Omweyimirize tree, this book reveals how clay pots, calabashes, Bachwezi cups and other artefacts mediate healing, identity, and continuity among the Balya...

Cyborgs of the ecocene

This book explores the relationship between people, society and nature through the lens of robots and robotics research. It argues that a deeper understanding of the field leads to a greater appreciation for human embodiment and creativity, rather than a belief in imminent machine intelligence.

Crafting co-ops in denmark

Builders construct certain political sensibilities through their daily work, which come to structure their wider social and political engagement with the encompassing society. Crafting Co-ops in Denmark explores the revival of cooperative craftwork in Denmark, delving into construction sites and ...

Antarctic materialities

Challenging the idea of a pristine, uninhabited continent, Antarctic Materialities shows how materialities create, transform, and connect Antarctic worlds, revealing the region as a historically layered landscape deeply entangled with global histories, politics, and imaginaries.

Crafting encounters in the art of early italy

Temples decorated with brightly coloured terracotta sculpture and tombs frescoed with carefully chosen imagery were sites of heightened encounter in early Italy. This volume reconstructs the crafting of encounters and the ways that such encounters were experienced, revealing how the inhabitants o...

Chengdu plain archaeological survey

The Chengdu Plain Archaeological Survey was an international collaborative archaeological project. This report brings together the data from the survey and synthetic discussions of the prehistory and environment of the region, the first comprehensive, systematic, large-scale regional survey of ar...

The future of archaeology

In recent decades an expanding cadre of archaeologists has embarked to the field and laboratories. They have collected troves of data about worldwide pasts at multiple scales from the molecular to the macroregional. In this volume a diverse suite of archaeologists marshal their thoughts regarding...

Roman gold from tresminas (portugal)

Reconstruction at Tresminas in Portugal of Roman mining activities in a primary deposit during the 1st and 2nd centuries AD has been made possible thanks to the excellent preservation of ancient. This is an important contribution to the economic history of ancient Greece and Rome, the archaeology...

Iron metallurgy in northeastern madagascar

From the 11th to the 14th century, a population known as the Rasikajy lived along the northeastern coast of Madagascar. The Rasikajy developed their own smelting technique, which is described in detail in this book.

The sublime object of orientalism

The Sublime Object of Orientalism proposes that globalised Asian physical cultural practices such as taiji, qigong, yoga, and meditation can be understood by examining the intimate connection between Western orientalism and the Romantic aesthetic notion of the sublime. The book recasts ‘orientali...

Fan phenomena: the twilight saga

From the moment Stephenie Meyer published Twilight in 2005, the series has captivated readers. Through three subsequent novels and the blockbuster movie series, the Twilight Saga quickly became more than just a hit series – it's now a cultural touchstone. This new entry in the Fan Phenomena seri...

Walking

The sociologists and writers in this collection put on their boots and take to the streets to craft their work in lively, mobile and sensuous ways. Together, their work explores the significance of studying social life on foot, and shows what can be gained from thinking on the move.

Streaming privilege

Streaming privilege shows how contemporary serial television helps to legitimate our ‘new Gilded Age’ of extreme inequality. The book exposes television’s obsession with privilege, analysing blockbuster series, which grapple with inherited wealth and power. It urges us to consider the political m...

Reproductive racism

The book analyses how demographic knowledge production and states’ grip to the variable of population intertwine. It introduces the concept of the Malthusian matrix in order to understand how class-selective and racist hierarchies within population narratives are combined with gendered policies o...

A wedding in the family

The silly thing

The Silly Thing is an account of a woman's acceptance of and struggle with living and dying with a grade 4 glioblastoma, an aggressive cancer of the brain. It is told from the perspective of her daughter, Esther Ramsay-Jones, a psychotherapist and academic.

Performance and purpose in dying and death

This book addresses the dying process and the nature of death itself with the intention that it might help us to accept and embrace both these things as a part of life. Intended to provide a shift in perception, this book aims to alleviate some of the fear, resistance and denial surrounding death...

The compendium of seminary texts

12 intermediate-level primers representing the prerequisites for scholarly literacy in the curriculum of the Ottoman seminary. Presented in a parallel Arabic/English format, the book contains explanatory notes and glossary; intended as a resource for the study of the Muslim seminary sciences by E...

Organised crime and migration

Human mobility, organised crime and corruption remain critical issues in Mexico and Central America. This book is the first to consider together three major, interconnected ways in which organised crime shapes migration in the region – as a driver of internal displacement and external migration, ...

Who cares?

Why are there such massive disparities, globally, nationally and regionally, in the provision of healthcare services and access to them? Anthony Gatrell, one of the foremost geographers of health, seeks explanations for such diverse distribution, and in so doing offers students a critical analysi...

Greek and roman coins in the athenian agora (modern greek)

Over 75,000 coins have been found during excavations at the Agora, many minted in the city but others brought from Athens’s far-flung contacts. This guide is a useful aid to the identification of common Greek and Roman coinage. The new edition has been updated with the latest discoveries in the A...

Greek and roman coins in the athenian agora: revised and updated edition

Over 75,000 coins have been found during excavations at the Agora, many minted in the city but others brought from Athens’s far-flung contacts. This guide is a useful aid to the identification of common Greek and Roman coinage. The new edition has been updated with the latest discoveries in the A...

Critical geographies of youth

Geography is central to understanding young people’s diverse and complex societal positioning. This critical introduction to the geographies of youth, suitable for a range of courses, examines how place and mobilities shape young people’s identities and agency.

Living the urban periphery

An empirically rich analysis of the drivers and lived experiences of urban change in African peripheries with a focus on city-regions in Ethiopia, South Africa and Ghana. The book proposes five peripheral logics which frame the formation and character of urban peripheries and explores these on th...

Personalised cancer medicine

Bringing the experiences of patients, carers and practitioners to the fore, this book explores how individual and collective futures are crafted through their work and care. The authors chart the different kinds of care and work involved in efforts to personalise cancer medicine, as well as the w...

Researching animal research

Through a sustained and critical engagement with the histories, social relations and cultures surrounding animal research, this book asks what the sector can teach us about the relations between science, society and animals in the twenty-first century.

Bordering social reproduction

Bordering social reproduction explores how migrants subjected to policies that seek to deny them the means of life endeavour to make and sustain meaningful lives. It develops innovative theorisations of welfare bordering and advances the novel concept of weathering to comprehend mother’s and chil...

Performing the jumbled city

Collectively written with indigenous artists and activists, this book engages with subversive representations of the (post)colonial city. At the intersection of ethnography, art, performance, and the urban space, the book elaborates on the epistemological and creative possibilities arising from c...

Assemblages of cancer

A qualitative, social science study using multi-sited ethnography and qualitative interviews with patients and medical professionals that analyses breast cancer experiences and how they are shaped by the interaction with biomedical, institutional and cultural contexts in the UK, France and Italy.

Enough!

Our world is characterized by scarcity and surfeit: too much carbon, pollution and concentrated wealth; a shortage of livelihoods, safe water and security. In response, the authors develop the idea of a ‘modest imaginary’, showing how it differs from modern and anti-modern approaches to sustainab...

Decolonizing african agriculture

In a compelling analysis of the failures of agricultural development in Africa William Moseley advocates for a non-colonial, indigenous agronomy that creates the social innovation needed to support the livelihoods of small-scale farmers.

The diane elson reader

This volume brings together seminal papers and contributions from Diane Elson’s extensive back catalogue. The collection reflects the author’s enduring fascination with the interaction of gender, development and economics and the relevance of her thinking for tackling inequality and economic prob...

The rise of the platform music industries

A critical appraisal of the latest round of platform intermediation, centred on MusicTech, social media platforms and user-generated content, live streaming, crowdfunding and gamification, that is reshaping the contemporary music industry.

Reflecting on practices

This collection of original essays aims to better understand what researchers do when they practice research. It reinforces a specifically geographic and spatial account that is needed for the development of practice theory while also shining new light on current debates in practice theory on pow...

The new refugees: crime and forced displacement in latin america

In Latin America, recent years have seen an unprecedented rise in the number of people forced to flee from their homes due to the activities of organised criminal groups. What are the reasons behind this emerging crisis of forced displacement in the Americas? Who are these criminal groups and how...

Thou shalt forget

Following a decade-long research project, this devastating book examines colonial state imperatives to sideline indigenous peoples and history from mainstream national narratives. Through the study of his community, the Essipiunnuat or, ‘People of the Brook Shells River’, the author hopes to comb...

Aspirational chinese in competitive social repositionings

Drawing upon a new perspective of competitive social repositioning and numerous new sources, this book fills the analytical gap caused by the research focus on either macro- or micro-level issues through analysing how everyday Chinese had reacted to and influenced the numerous changes in China fr...

Life chances, education and social movements

‘Life Chances, Education and Social Movements’ dwells on the necessity of education and social movements for enhancing the life chances of individuals and disadvantaged groups respectively. Ralf Dahrendorf’s work on life chances and social conflict is used to support the theoretical and empirical...

The anthem companion to immanuel wallerstein

The Anthem Companion to Immanuel Wallerstein explores many of the topics central to Wallerstein’s understanding of the modern world-system and offers a comprehensive guide to the full range of his work.

Insurgent play

Insurgent Play: Social worlds of urban disruption explores play as a transgressive expression that disrupts the modern city.

The anthem companion to pierre bourdieu

'The Anthem Companion to Pierre Bourdieu' provides an introduction to the French sociologist’s thought and an evaluation of the international significance of his work from a range of national perspectives.

Male homosexuality in 21st-century thailand

This book explores the experiences, meanings and identities of young same-sex attracted men in rural Thailand. It is based on a study of 25 young rural Thai men who were each interviewed three times within a two-year period while they were aged 18–20, uncovering significant fluidity, variety and ...

Culture and conflicts in sierra leone mining

This book argues that mining area conflicts of Sub-Saharan African countries, like Sierra Leone, and their impacts on mineral development and policy stem from cultural differences in land governance. Extractive industries operating under state laws, which have roots in colonial policies, clash wi...

The anthem companion to raymond aron

Raymond Aron is an exceptional figure among twentieth-century sociological and political thinkers. The book focuses on the sociological work of this author of the century, who analyzed his age both in its grand-scale political and socio-economic traits and in the complex social and political rami...

Fashion as cultural translation

The book deals with fashion as a form of visual culture embodied through signs. It reproduces itself with a pattern based on the semiotic network of places, social practices and forms of imagery.

Living with poverty and dependence in england

This book addresses the effects of poverty on multiple interdependencies in kinship, neighbourly and friendship relations. It explores how interpersonal relationships are made, unmade, recuperated or ended by people who are living with poverty in one of England’s most deprived neighbourhoods. 

Radical human centricity

This book is a call to action. It is a critique of the poor state of commercial research and an articulation of the shifts and changes in thinking needed to fulfil the empty promises of human-centered research.

Critical sexual literacy

This book is a new and exciting resource for teachers, students, and activists who aim to critically examine contemporary sexuality through the lens of sexual literacy and situated social analysis. This original anthology provides shorter cutting-edge essays on theory, method, and activism, inclu...

Refugee support and moral practice in slovakia

This ethnography accompanies people who support refugees in Slovakia—outlining the personal and political dilemmas that complicate refugee care in Central Eastern Europe and beyond.

Self-presentation and representative politics

The book presents six articles written at intervals of about a decade between 1960 and 2020, all of which relate to the problem of representative politics. The articles are contextualised historically to document a developing presentation of self on the part of the author while also raising quest...

Taking responsibility for the life of complex human ecosystems

Moving towards, not away from, the vexing array of discouraging crises of our time and drawing on a number of innovative but congruent concepts, this short book offers to focus our path towards deep accountability for the life of complex human ecosystems.

Sociology in times of glocalization

This book offers a series of critical discussions of how sociology is responding to the challenges of globalization, to local counter-reactions to them, to the many ways ‘the global’ impacts our lives, and to the new questions about research this poses.

The culture of caution

An ethnographic exploration of Islamic television talk show production, revealing behind-the-scenes challenges and strategies shaped by a culture of caution.

The creativity hoax

We often hear that creativity is the key to economic regeneration in the west, yet those who pursue creative skills/ambitions typically experience low incomes and poor career prospects. ‘The Creativity Hoax’ argues that the ‘call to creativity’ is designed to make workers more labile, agile and m...

Refugees, refuge, and human displacement

This volume studies the concept of refuge as well as historical forced displacement and statelessness, trying to provide potential lasting solutions to the many problems associated with this situation. It moves from the pressing crisis of refugees to the crisis of humanity that seeks to find refuge.

Bauman, elias and latour on modernity and its alternatives

‘Bauman, Elias and Latour on Modernity and Its Alternatives’ summarizes and compares the sociological works of three contemporary authors insofar as they deal with the themes of modernity and its alternatives. These alternatives are either deemed to be possible or actually experienced, whether hi...

The anthem companion to ernst troeltsch

‘The Anthem Companion to Ernst Troeltsch’ is a collection of eight essays by well-regarded Troeltsch specialists covering a wide range of topics of his thinking.

The anthem companion to robert park

Not making a case for or against Robert Park, ‘The Anthem Companion to Robert Park’ encourages readers to consider the virtue of rethinking—and rereading—this major figure in American sociology.

The drivers and outcomes of global health diplomacy

This book investigates the Brazilian health cooperation in Mozambique through the implementation of a pharmaceutical factory in Maputo.

Teaching palestine on an israeli university campus

The word “occupation” is not heard in classrooms on the Hebrew University campus, at the heart of Palestinian East Jerusalem. The “war outside” is not spoken of. Israeli and Palestinian students unsettle this denial for the first time in a practice-led course on human rights in the reality around...

Sensibilities and emotion on trans-globalisation era

This book offers a reflection about the state of politics of sensibilities on a planetary scale today; the authors propose a space that is destined to listen and exchange our own experiences of inquiry.

The domains of identity

“The Domains of Identity” defines sixteen coherent yet comprehensive categories of interactions which cause personally identifiable information to be stored in databases. Discussions of identity management are often confusing; enumerating these domains and describing their characteristics clarifi...

Don't shoot the journalists

Born out of the University of Oregon’s “Extra!! Don’t Kill the Messenger: Migrating to Stay Alive” international symposium on journalism-in-exile, this volume brings together the presentations, conversations, and reflections of writers, reporters, and scholars who have faced dangers and threats t...

The anthem companion to robert n. bellah

‘The Anthem Companion to Robert Bellah’ is the first major collection of writings on the life and work of one of the foremost twentieth-century sociologists of religion.

The anthem companion to harold garfinkel

The Anthem Companion to Harold Garfinkel brings together leading scholars and upcoming researchers in contemporary ethnomethodology to bring out the experimental character of Garfinkel’s legacy in the social sciences and beyond.

China and sustainable development in latin america

China and Sustainable Development in Latin America documents the social and environmental impacts of the China-led commodity boom in Latin America. It also highlights important areas of innovation where governments, communities and investors have worked together to harness the commodity boom for ...

Religion, supernaturalism, the paranormal and pseudoscience

“Religion, Supernaturalism, the Paranormal and Pseudoscience” provides a comprehensive rejoinder to the challenges posed to science, scientific anthropology, evolutionary theory and rationality by the advocates of supernatural, paranormal, and pseudoscientific perspectives and modes of thought.